Ghost Ouchies

[windwalker]

Does anyone ever get the Ghost Ouchies? Thats where in the days just before a race, that's important to you, you get little aches and pains for no reason and then they just disappear in a few minutes.

Your foot or knee or some other part you need for the race will just all of a sudden start hurting and then in a few minutes it will stop.

It's like when you are trying to fall asleep and you start getting little iches all over your body. Like your body is trying to keep you from falling asleep.

Anyone else ever had this problem?

Dave

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

psssst....


Here's some ghost pills....take 3x daily until race day.



I know what you mean though...

Just another cruel side effect of the taper.

My side effects are usually some weird non-existent sensation like my legs just want to get up and go go go go go.

 

[princessrunner]

Funny you posted this (or not) I woke up this morning with a typical migraine (5K at 10:30 this morning) and now that I am up, had coffee and put my running clothes out, it is going away with no meds. Almost like you read my mind.....or are you in my head??

WWDave, go get em today! Hope you have a great race!

 

[getnthinr]

For me it usually happens at the starting line. I'm waiting in my corral for the race to start and suddenly I start thinking, "Does my back hurt? Is that my knee aching?" Weird pains that have no basis in reality -- just nerves.

Once before a marathon I took my shoe off three times because I was certain I felt a pebble in there -- then I thought it was a splinter. Nothing -- just pre-race jitters.

I thought I was the only weird one!

 

[ultramickeymouse]

I get that with my right shin. It does this ever since shin splints before my first marathon in 1992.